The Northward Movement of the Colored Population

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Excerpt from The Northward Movement of the Colored Population: A Statistical Study In which direction does the colored population of this country show a tendency to move - northwards or southwards? This is an important question, and the answer to it which has been given by some statisticians will be found, after careful study of the tenth and eleventh censuses, not to be the correct one. There is an interesting pamphlet by Mr. Henry Gannett, of the United States Geological Survey, on "Statistics of the Negroes in the United States" - it appeared in 1894 under the auspices of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, and is for sale by The Friedenwald Company, Baltimore - which contains much valuable information as to the growth, diffusion, health, etc., of the colored population, and is illustrated by carefully prepared maps and diagrams. There is, however, one conclusion, or set of conclusions, reached by the author, which a careful study of the figures will, I submit, show to be erroneous. On page 13 he says, "The movement of these people from the south into the north has been inconsiderable, " and, on page 20, "All this indicates in the most unmistakable terms a general southward migration of this race, " and, on page 28, "They are moving southward from the bonier states into those of the south Atlantic and the Gulf." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.